Articulatory class based spectral envelope representation for voice fonts

Author

Verma, Ashish ; Kumar, Arun

Author_Institution

IBM India Res. Lab., Indian Inst. of Technol., New Delhi, India

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

27-30 June 2004

Firstpage

1647

Abstract

Voice fonts are used to represent and transform the personality of speech. The spectral envelope is one of the main descriptors of voice fonts. We present a new technique to represent the spectral envelope in voice fonts which makes it possible to create a universal voice font for a given speaker which can be used for multiple languages. It enables voice fonts to be used for translingual personality transformation of speech. We evaluate the performance of the proposed approach through monolingual and translingual personality transformation experiments. We also compare the performance with the phoneme class based spectral envelope representation in voice fonts through various objective and subjective tests.

Keywords

natural languages; speech; speech synthesis; articulatory class; monolingual personality transformation; multiple languages; personalized text-to-speech synthesis; phoneme class; spectral envelope; speech personality; translingual personality transformation; voice fonts; Bit rate; Computer aided instruction; Frequency; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Postal services; Space technology; Speech coding; Speech synthesis; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8603-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2004.1394567

Filename

1394567